Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Hart (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Hart. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Hart is located in Castro County.
To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Castro County: Deaf Smith, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Randall & Swisher.
Below are the counties that are near Hart. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hart:
- Castro County (The home county of Hart)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hart, with the one closest to Hart listed first.
- Nazareth
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Dimmitt
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hale County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hart, with the one closest to Hart listed first.
- Edmonson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hale City ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hale City is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
- Plainview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Seth Ward
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Seth Ward is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seth Ward
- Hale Center
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Cotton Center
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Cotton Center is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Center
- Lamb County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hart, with the one closest to Hart listed first.
- Olton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Springlake
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Earth
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Fieldton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hart Camp ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hart Camp is located in Lamb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart Camp
- Amherst
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Parmer County
- Lazbuddie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Swisher County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hart, with the one closest to Hart listed first.
- Kress
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Tulia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Happy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Claytonville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Claytonville is located in Swisher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hart, see our County-by-County Page for Hart.
Cemeteries Near Hart ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hart.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Hart - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hart covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hart, with the one closest to Hart listed first.
- Hart Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Olton Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Holy Family Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Springlake Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Flagg Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Castro Memorial Gardens
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Halfway Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Westlawn Memorial Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Earth Memorial Perpetual Care Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Memorial Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Kress Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill Cemetery
- The Rose Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rose Cemetery
- Tulia Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6456 <2>
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Wright Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Center Plains Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hale Center Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale Center Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hale Center Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Hale Center.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4017 <2>
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Hart in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hart.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hart, with the one closest to Hart listed first.
- Dimmitt
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Tulia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Hale City ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hale City is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
- Plainview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Happy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hart. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hart.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Hart ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hart.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Hart. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Hart and those printed in the larger area surrounding Hart.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3> of Hart.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Hart:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Castro County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Hale County
- Lamb County
- Parmer County
- Swisher County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hart) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hart, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |